HITLER: THE FUHRER AND THE PEOPLE (First paperback edition - first impression)

J. P. Stern

ISBN 10: 0520029526 / ISBN 13: 9780520029521

Edité par University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1975

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First impression of the first paperback edition. ***Very good in illustrated red and white printed card covers. The covers show some rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling, but are very clean. Edges slightly rubbed and scuffed. A crease at the bottom of the front cover. Light reading creases to the spine but spine tight and square with no reading lean. Red titles faded on the spine. A University of California price-sticker is still in place on the back cover (please see scans). Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. Nice quality paper which hasn't tanned with age. ***254 pages including notes and index at the back of the book. 182mm x110 mm. ***'Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth Burke saw as a crying need on the brink of World War II. The questions Professor Stern ask are fundamental and still of the first importance in our own society. How could a predominately sober, hardworking, and well-educated nation be persuaded to follow Hitler and his inhuman and destructive program? What was the source of his immense popularity? Why were his public utterances so powerfully persuasive? What were the shared assumptions behind "The Final Solution," "Operation Barbarossa," "The Night of the Long Knives?" ' (Quote taken from the back cover) ***First impression of the first paperback edition of "Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People". A classic title of interest to scholars and historians researching German history and the psychology of Adolf Hitler. A very uncommon book to find in the UK - published by the University of California. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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• Titre: HITLER: THE FUHRER AND THE PEOPLE (First paperback edition - first impression)
• Éditeur: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Date de parution: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520029526
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520029521
• Reliure: Original Wraps
• Édition: First Paperback Edition
• Impression: First Impression
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket, as Issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Collectable Paperbacks
  • History & Military

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Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth Burke saw as a crying need on the brink of World War II. The questions Professor Stern asks are fundamental and still of the first importance in our own society. How could a predominantly sober, hardworking, and well-educated nation be persuaded to follow Hitler and his inhuman and destructuve program? What was the source of his immense popularity? Why were his public utterances so powerfully persuasive? What were the shared assumptions behind "The Final Solution," Operation Barbarossa, "The Night of the Long Knives"?

Professor Stern has done a pioneering study of the rhetoric of Nazism, a rhetoric that coupled words and action. He examines the speeches, writings, and conversations of Hitler and places them in the context of traditional beliefs of the society into which Hitler, the "ideal outsider," made his way. With terrifying logic his career emerges as the creation of a man who translated the private sphere of sentiment into the public sphere of political action, the will to power into a weapon of mass hypnosis.